diff --git a/src/lib/Hydra/Plugin/GithubRefs.pm b/src/lib/Hydra/Plugin/GithubRefs.pm
index 1de2672d..2038ea47 100644
--- a/src/lib/Hydra/Plugin/GithubRefs.pm
+++ b/src/lib/Hydra/Plugin/GithubRefs.pm
@@ -97,8 +97,8 @@ sub _iterate {
 }
 
 sub fetchInput {
-    my ($self, $type, $name, $value, $project, $jobset) = @_;
-    return undef if $type ne "github_refs";
+    my ($self, $input_type, $name, $value, $project, $jobset) = @_;
+    return undef if $input_type ne "github_refs";
 
     my ($owner, $repo, $type, $fut, $prefix) = split ' ', $value;
     die "type field is neither 'heads' nor 'tags', but '$type'"